Darn this was good. Molasses, chocolate, pecans and of course the ingredient of the season, pumpkin! We hear there’s a shortage so take heart, this only uses half a can. That’s right I used canned. We still have a few clearance cans from last Thanksgiving. I used a hard cider, the fizzy alcoholic kind, but if you don’t have some on hand just use the nonbubbly, nonalcoholic version. Greg’s face sort of fell when I used half a cup of the cider he brought me to make a baked good. He was happy with the results. If you don’t like chocolate, I know some of you are out there, feel free to use raisins, which are verboten in our house.

Pumpkin bread

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup molasses

1 cup pumpkin puree

1/2 cup melted butter

1/2 cider (flat or fizzy)

1 egg

1 cup white flour

1 cup whole wheat flour

3 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

pinch ground cloves

1/2 cup chopped dark chocolate

1/cup coarsely chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan or muffin tin. Mix flours, baking powder and spices in a large bowl. In a smaller bowl whisk together brown sugar, molasses, butter, cider, pumpkin and egg until well incorporated. Add all at once to dry ingredients. Stir until just incorporated. Fold in chocolate and pecans. Pour in loaf pan. Cook until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about an hour. Cool before slicing.

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This blog attempts to collect some of the things I try to create with food and booze. Sometimes I succeed and sometimes I fail. My hope is to entertain and maybe help people think a little harder about what they decide to eat and drink.

Yup I’m that one person who doesn’t like chocolate, so I would definitely use raisins. I’m such a weirdo. But anyways, this bread sounds fantastic! Thanks so much for the shout outs on my pumpkin posts.🙂

You know how I am about chocolate Katherine.. lol. But then gain you know how I am about bread lol. But despite that, I will give this a try. But adding the chocolate is brilliant! Definitely got me hooked😉

I, too, have bought pumpkin on sale and then spent the following year moving it around the shelf. Had I known about this recipe, however, those cans would have been far less travelled. And I’ll bake mine with both raisins and chocolate. Yes, I want it all!

Ha, sure. You even named your dog Rufus. OK, seriously, this happens to us all the time. It’s fun to see different versions. And I don’t think many of Greg’s recipes, or mine, are vegan. I love your site, such great photos!

This one’s perfect for me! I’ll probably go with raisins and chocolate!! I don’t think there is anything I don’t like!! The addition of molasses sounds good, probably makes it nice and rich in taste. I saw canned pumpkin at the store last week and stocked up!!

This pumpkin bread looks good. I love it all, chocolate and raisins. I also love cranberries and pumpkin in my baked goods. I have to share my oatmeal pumpkin cranberry breakfast cookies soon before pumpkin season ends.

I love all things “pumpkin” and especially pumpkin bread. I like the combination of pumpkin and chocolate and will definitely add this to my holiday baking list. Molasses, pumpkin, chocolate…what a great trio…it is the season!

Hmm, you have a point. Make sure to get a giant bottle or a six-pack so you’ll have something to drink with the bread. I kid you not I have an article in front of me that says Utah is one of the two states that’s drier than Arkansas. Per capita alcohol consumed 18.9 gallons (annually I guess) in Utah, 26.6 gallons in Arkansas. I think we can both try to get those numbers up!

Also Utah might be dead last in alcohol consumption, but the state is first in porn consumption. Seriously, this is one of the interesting things you learn when moving here. Tons of Mormons who enjoy the privacy of the internet.🙂

Good grief! I am not searching for the answer, as I work, on where we rank. But I had never seen mega Adult stores until I moved South. Although, when we drove to the Finger Lakes there were quite a few in Pa.

i like your food pictures and want to invite you to try out tastingspot.com. it’s for anyone that just wants another place to submit photos and share it will other foodies. It’s still in beta version, but would love for you to start adding some photos and help get it going.

I love raisins, but not cooked into things, other than Cinnamon Raisin Bread, or maybe Oatmeal. I mostly prefer to eat them fresh. However, chocolate in this sounds far better anyway! I say don’t go messing up a good food with raisins in it, add chocolate instead! The darker the better.

Btw, my roommate made some “to-die-for” pumpkin cookies…. twice The recipe really should be halved, it makes sooooo many & they are so good you’ll want to eat them all. I don’t recommend doing so. You’ll regert your attempts. Here’s the link”